Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

For me, playing a vampire isn't about the fact that they're a vampire, it's about who they are specifically.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

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